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1 After the Gallatin River, Outside Bozeman, Montana BRITTA AMEEL has lived most of her life west of the continental divide. Her cur­ rent stint in Ann Arbor, where she teaches and writes at the University of Michigan, makes her miss the mountains and the ocean. Her poems have appeared or are forth­ coming inem, Haydens Ferry Review, andFugue.

3 Active Rhythm (-Indigo Letter-) I Tell You These Things Because You Are Clearly In Pain CAL BEDIENT is the author of several books of literacy criticism and of two collections of poetry:Candy Necklace (Wesleyan) andThe Violence o f the Morning (University of Georgia). He is a co-editor of the New California Poetry series and teaches at UCLA.

if Redolence JENNIFER K. DICK is the author ofFluorescence (University of Georgia Press, Contemporary Poetry Series winner 2004)Retina/Retine and (a bilingual, hand-sewn chapbook with artwork by Kate Vanhouten and translations by Remi Bouthonnier, Estepa Editions, Paris, 2005). Her recent work appears or is soon forthcoming in The Colorado Review, Aufgabe, The Canary, Mipoesias.com, Gargoyle, Diner and Green Mountains Review. She has guest edited a selection of French translations, including her own translations of French poet Remi Bouthonnier, and including interviews, for www.chicagopostmodernpoetry.com (click on FRANCE). From Iowa, she currently lives in Paris where she is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at Paris III: La Sorbonne Nouvelle. She teaches for the ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique) and for Oxbridge Summer Programs.

10 Poi cominciai: ‘Belacqua, a me non dole” JOHN NIEKRASZ lives on the Clark Fork River in Missoula, Montana. He studied poetry at Iowa and cut his knuckle on the edge of a crash cymbal yesterday. uPoi cominciai: Belacqua, a me non dole’ is from a manuscript-in-progress entitled Belacqua.

i 12 Belated Hymns I, IV, V JAIME SILES’ collections of poetry includeCanon, winner of the Premio Ocnos in 1973, Musica de agua, winner of the Premio de la Critica in 1983, Semaforos, and Semaforos, winner of the Premio Fundacion Loewe in 1989. These poems come from his 1999 collection,Himnos tardios, winner of the Premio Internacional de Poesi'a Generacion del 27. MILES WAGGENER’S translations of Jaime Siles can be found in Salt Hill, HUBBUB, International Poetry Review, and The Louisville Review. He teaches writing and literature at Prescott College.

17 The Heaven-Sent Leaf In the Flower Store Next Door Financial Release KATY LEDERER is the author of the poetry collection,Winter Sex (Verse Press, 2002) and the memoirPoker Face: A Girlhood Among Gamblers (Crown, 2003). She currently lives in Manhattan, where she works for a quantitative trading firm.

20 from Shades o f Death Road JILL MAGI is the author ofThreads, a hybrid work of text and image, forthcoming in 2006 from Futurepoem Books, and the chapbookCadastral Map, published by Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs. Her work has appearedThe inNew Review o f Literature, Aufgabe, Chain, Boog City, Pierogi Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Global City and Review, is forthcoming Freehand.in Jill edits Sona Books, a community-based chapbook press with a corresponding web-zinewww.sonaweb.net at . She teaches at Tbe City College/CUNY Center for Worker Education, an interdisciplinary liberal arts degree program for working adults.

24 Excavations To X. and I PHAN NHIEN HAO was born in 1967 in Kontum, Vietnam. He immigrated to the United States in 1991 and now lives in Los Angeles, California. He has a BA in Vietnamese Literature from The Teachers College of Saigon, a BA in American Literature from UCLA, and a Master in Library Science, also from UCLA. He is the author of two collections of poems,Paradise o f Paper Bells (1998) andManufacturing Poetry 99-04 (2004). His poems have been translated into English and published in the journalsThe Literary Review, Manoa, xconnect andFilling Station, and inO f Vietnam: Identities in Dialogues (Palgrave, 2001), and in a full-length, bilingual collection,Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry o f Phan Nhien translated Hao, by Linh Dinh (Tupelo 2006). LINH DINH is the author of two collections of stories, Fake House (Seven Stories Press, 2000) andBlood and Soap (Seven Stories Press, 2004), and three books of poems,All Around What Empties Out(Tinfish, 2003), American Tatts (Chax, 2005) andBorderless Bodies (Factory School, 2005). His work has been anthologizedBest in American Poetry 2000, Best American Poetry 2004 and Great American Prose Poems from Poe to the Present, among other places. He is also the editor of the anthologiesNight, Again: Contemporary Fiction from Vietnam(Seven Stories Press 1996) andThree Vietnamese Poets (Tinfish, 2001), and translator of Night, Fish and Charlie Parker, the poetry o f Phan Nhien (Tupelo, Hao 2005). He lives in Norwich, England as a David Wong Fellow at the University of East Anglia.

2 6 from The Georgies VIRGIL (Publiius Virgilius Maro, 70-19 BCE) was born near Mantua inThe Gaul. Georgies, Virgil’s second major poem, took seven years to white, and was completed in 29 BCE. The work consists of over two thousand lines of poetry in four books and considers agriculture, viticulture, animal husbandry, and beekeeping.

30 Rilke GINA MYERS lives in Brooklyn where she co-editsthe tiny with Gabriella Torres.

31 from The Jellyfish Diaries AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL is the author ofMiracle Fruit, winner of the Tupelo Press Prize, and the forthcomingCorpse Flower. New work appears inTin House andHotel Amerika. She is assistant professor of English at SUNY-Fredonia. There is a toad who vexes her geriatric dachshund when she goes outside, in spite of all the lake effect snow.

3 4 An abridged history book &Totems In the spirit of a more honest contributors note, BOB HICOK announces that no ballet or symphony will soon be performed, based on his crown of thorny sonnets, nor will his work soon appear to have gained maturity of perspective, though a group of 3/8s of his poems are due outO Kin American Poetry: Why the Cow Says Moo.

35 Interview with D.A. Powell D.A. POWELL is the author of three full-length collections of poems; the most recent, Cocktails, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle and the Lambda Book Awards. Powell’s work has appearedBoston in Review, Tin House, Denver Quar­ terly, and theWashington Post. His honors include a Pushcart Prize, an Academy of American Poets Prize, and a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. Powell was recently in residence in Montana as the Engelhard Visiting Writer. He has taught at Harvard, Columbia, and University of Iowa. He is presently on faculty at University of San Francisco.

43 [crematorium at sierra view cemetery next to the highschool, regarding the] D.A. POWELL

45 Cruel and Gentle Things O Good Samaritan AMY KING is the author of the poetry collection,Antidotes for an Alibi (Blazvox Books, 2005), and the chapbook,The People Instruments (Pavement Saw Press Chapbook Award, 2002). She currently teaches Creative Writing and English at Nassau Community College and teaches a workshop of her own design, “Making the Urban Poetic,” at Poets House in Manhattan. Amy is also an interview correspondent for miPOradio. Please visitwww.amyking.org for more.

48 from Helsinki PETER RICHARDS is the author ofOubliette (Verse Press, 2001) andNude Siren (Verse Press, 2003). He teaches at Harvard University where he is a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in American Language and Literature.

53 flings shifted CINDY SAVETT teaches poetry workshops to psychiatric inpatients at several hospitals in the Philadelphia area. Her poems have appeared in recent or forthcoming issues ofLIT, Margie, Heliotrope, The Marlboro Review, can we have our ball back, Apocryphaltext, 2 6 Magazine, and other journals.

55 from Hovenweep ELIZABETH ROBINSON is the author of six books of poetry, with two more coming out in 2006—Apostrophe (Apogee Press) andUnder That Silky Roof{Burning Deck Press). She lives in Boulder and teaches at the University of Colorado.

iv 5 7 Forces o f Modifications: On Barbara Guest's The Red Gaze ANTHONY HAWLEY S first book of poems,The Concerto Form, will be published by Shearsman Books this spring. He is the author of the chapbooksAfield (Ugly Duckling Presse) andVocative (Phylum Press) and has poems forthcomingThe in Hat, Octopus, Delmar, Colorado Review, and Verse. He currently lives in Nebraska with his wife and daughter.

60 1861.3 (192-199) 1861.4 (199-209) 1862.6 (301-305) 1862.11 (317-319) 1862.12 (320-325) JANET HOLMES is the author ofF2F (forthcoming from University of Notre Dame Press) as well as three other books. Director of the all-poetry Ahsahta Press, she teaches in the MFA Program at Boise State University.

73 Distraction Speak Low CARL PHILLIPS is the author of seven books of poems, includingThe Rest o f Love (2004), finalist for the National Book Award, and winner of the Theodore Roethke Memorial Prize and the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Male Poetry,The and Fether (2001), which received the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His nextRiding book, Westward, will be published in the spring of 2006. Phillips has also written a book of essays,Coin o f the Realm: Essays on the Life and A rt o f and Poetry, has translated Sophocles’ Philoctetes. He teaches at Washington University in St. Louis.

77 This Nest, Swift Passerine: 3rd Movement DAN BEACHY-QUICK teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His newest bookMulberry is (Tupelo, 2006). The work from which this material derives—This Nest, Swift Passerine—will appear from Tupelo Press in 2008.

113 Just under the sternum, where the unspeakable GREG GLAZNER’s books of poetryFrom are the Iron Chair, which won the Walt Whitman Award, andSingularity, both published byNJ. WNorton. Currently on an NEA Fellowship, Glazner is at work Zendson Cure, a multi-genre novel. Excerpts from Zends Cure have appearedPloughshares, in Colorado Review, Poetry, Seneca Re­ view, and elsewhere.

114 from hyper glossia STACY SZYMASZEK is the author ofEmptied o f All Ships (Litmus Press) as well as several chap books,Pasolini Poems (Cy Press) among them. Work from her ongoing serial poem “hyper glossia” was just published as a Belladonna chapbook. She is from Milwaukee but recently relocated to New York to work at the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church. She brought a Jonathan Williams portrait of Lorine Niedecker that hangs near her desk.

117 Isochronous KAREN AN-HWEI LEE’S first book-length collection,In Medias Res, won the Kathryn A. Morton Prize from Sarabande Books and the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award. Her chapbook,God’s One Hundred Promises, received the Swan Scythe Press Prize. The recipient of fellowships from the Yoshiko Uchida Foundation, the Beinecke Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, she holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in literature. She lives and teaches on the West Coast.

121 Sad Song PHAN HUYEN T H U was born in Hanoi in 1972 and still lives there. She comes from a musical family, her father a famous song composer, her mother a singer. Phan Huyen Thu herself has performed publicly on various traditional instruments. A journalist and screen-writer by trade, Phan Huyen Thu is the author of two collection of poems,Lying on my Side (2001) andChest Empty (2005), and a book of stories, Wooden Gecko (2003). Her works have also been translated into English and published inThe Literary Review andO f Vietnam: Identities in Dialogues (Palgrave, 2001).

122 Exercises in Translation Georgies o f the M ind KIMBERLY JOHNSON’S first poetry collectionLeviathan with a Hook (Persea Books) appeared in 2002, and she has recent workThe New in Yorker, The Southern Review, Arion, and elsewhere. Recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Utah Arts Council, she currently lives in Salt Lake City.

vi 124 from North American Dreams JON THOMPSON edits Free Verse: A Journal o f Contemporary Poetry dr atPoetics North Carolina State University. He also edits Parlor Press’s new poetry series, Free Verse Editions. His first collection wasThe Book o f the Floating World (2004). The prose poems published here are from a sequence that meditates on contemporary American experience and its histories; the italicized quotations are all from Edward Taylor’s poetry.

128 [The Sad Russian Masters Are Sad No More] [I Thought the Gravity o f a Situation...] [For Aught I Know...] ADAM CLAY’S first book,The Wash, is forthcoming frorn Parlor Press. His poems appear inBarrow Street, Iowa Review, Denver Quarterly, and elsewhere. He lives in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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150 Reindeer Round Christmas Prelude LISA JARNOT is the author of three books of poems, includingBlack Dog Songs (Flood Editions, 2003). She lives in Queens and teaches at Brooklyn College.

152 fromJohn Fahey’s America’ AARON MCCOLLOUGH S third book of poemsLittle Ease is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press in Fall 2006. He is the recent recipient of a Gertrude Stein Award in Innovative Poetry. He is married to Suzanne Chapman. They have been living in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

155 metamorphoses EVIE SHOCKLEY S poetry collection,a h a lf red sea, is forthcoming in 2006 from Carolina Wren Press, which also published her chapbook,The Gorgon Goddess (2001). Her work appears Beloitin Poetry Journal, Blue Fifth Review, Brilliant Corners, Callaloo, Fascicle, Hambone, HOW 2, nearSouth, nocturnes (re)view, Poetry Daily, Talisman, and other journals and anthologies. She is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers

vii University, where she teaches African American literature and creative writing.

156 White Item (2) Olympia (3) “Living Distances” JAYE BARTELL lives in an attic in Asheville, North Carolina, where he is a bookseller and curator of the Fresh Air Reading Series. His work has been or willthistle, be in Avant-God, Eye for an Iris #16,andCapgun.

159 from Key Bridge KEN RUMBLE is the director of the Desert City Poetry Series and a member of the Lucifer Poetics Group. His poems have appeared or are forthcomingOne Less in Magazine, Wherever We Put Our Hats, Carolina (Quarterly, Cranky, Fascicle, GutCult, Typo, the tiny, and others.

164 Negatives Spaces I, II, III, IV EILEEN R. TABIOS has written 10 books of poetry, a short story collection, and a collection of art essays. In 2005, she released the multi-genre collectionI Take Thee, English, For My Beloved (Marsh Hawk Press, New York), which features poems, an experimental novel, an art monograph, play, and poetics prose. In 2006, she will release a new poetry collection,The Secret Lives o f Punctuations, Vol. (xPressed, I Espoo). Recipient of awards including the Philippines’ National Book Award for Poetry, the Potrero Nuevo Fund Prize, the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles National Literary Award, and the Judds Hill Winery Annual Poetry Prize, she writes the poetics blog, “The Chatelaine’s Poetics” (chatelaine-poet.blogspot.com).

168 G. is for Glassblower. Gestated. Gravid. Ugly. ARIELLE GREENBERG is the author ofMy Kafka Century (Action Books, 2005), Given (Verse, 2002) and the chapbookFarther Down: Songs from the Allergy Trials (New Michigan, 2003). Her work appeared in the 2004 and 2005 editionsBest of American Poetry. She lives with her family in Evanston, Illinois and teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

170 from The Ideograms MATTHEW ROHRER is the author of four books of poems:A Hummock In The

viii Malookas, which won the 1994 National Poetry Series and was chosen by Publishers Weekly as a “Best Book of the Year” for 1995;Satellite; A Green Light (which was shortlisted for the 2005 Griffin Prize); andNice Hat. Thanks, which was written collaboratively with Joshua Beckman. An audioAdventures CD, While Preaching The Gospel o f Beauty, collects some of their live, improvised collaborative poems from their extensive tour to support the book. Matthew Rohrer’s poems have appeared in many journals here and overseas and have been widely anthologized.

174 “The Seed Vision ” (from Flet) JOYELLE MCSWEENEY is the author ofThe Commandrine and Other Stories and The Red Bird, both from Fence. She teaches in the MFA faculty at the University of Alabama and writes reviews forThe Constant Critic, she is also the co-publisher of Action Books, a new press for poetry and translationwww.actionbooks.org ( ). “The Seed Vision” is an excerpt from her sci-fi novella,Flet, which imagines a Nation in which a catastrophic Emergency has prompted the Administration to evacuate and permanently close all cities. The protagonist, Flet, experiences this ‘Seed Vision when she secretly returns to the deserted Old Capitol.

176 The Aviation o f Transformations [There lived a/ miller...] In 1928, DANIIL KHARMS (1905-1942) and friends founded the last avant-garde collective of the early Soviet period, the OBERIU, or Union of Real Art, which followed in the footsteps of avant-garde artists and writers they admired— Kazimir Malevich, Velemir Khlebnikov, Mikhail Matiushin, and Igor Terentiev, among others. Kharms’ idiosyncratic visions and aesthetic theories centered around a belief in the autonomy of art from real world logic and the intrinsic meaning to be found in objects and words outside of their practical function. By the late 1920s, his antirational verse, nonlinear theatrical performances, and public displays of decadent and illogical behavior earned Kharms the reputation of being a “fool” or a “crazy- man in Leningrad cultural circles. Soviet authorities, increasingly hostile toward the avant-garde in general, deemed Kharms’ writing for children anti-Soviet because of its absurd logic and its refusal to instill materialist Soviet values. In 1931 he was arrested and prosecuted for his involvement in a group of “anti-Soviet children’s writers.” After serving a short time in exile, he was no longer allowed to perform his work. He found it increasingly difficult to publish even his work for children, which had been his sole source of income. Kharms lived in debt and hunger for several years until his final arrest on suspicions of treason in the summer of 1941. He was imprisoned in the psychiatric ward at Leningrad Prison No. 1 and died in his cell in February, 1942. His work was saved from the war by loyal friends and hidden until the 1960s when his children’s writing became widely published and scholars began the job of recovering his manuscripts and publishing them in the west. MATVEI YANKELEVICH is the

ix editor of the Eastern European Poets Series at Ugly Duckling Presse and co-edits 6x6, a poetry periodical. A book of Kharms’ selected works in Matvei’s translation is fortcoming from Overlook Press. Matvei’s translation of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s “The Cloud In Pants” was recently includedCircumference in Magazine. His own writing has appeared in various little magazines. An ongoing critical piece on Russian-American poets appears on-lineOctopus at Magazine. He is the co-translator, with Eugene Ostashevsky,An of Invitation For Me To Think, the Selected Poems o f Alexander Vvedensky, forthcoming from Green Integer; andRussian of Absurdism: OBERIU, an anthology forthcoming from Northwestern University Press. Matvei is currently exploring the connections between Daniil Kharms and Marcel Duchamp. ILYA BERNSTEIN is a poet and translator. He is the author of one book of poems, Attention and Man (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003).

180 Politics and Poetics in Juliana Spahr’s This Connection o f Everyone With Lungs MONICA FAMBROUGH was born in Atlanta, Georgia. Her poems and reviews have appeared inBajfling Combustions, Art New England, Octopus Magazine, Weird Deer, andAmerican Weddings, among others. A chapbook,Black Beauty, is forthcoming from Katalanche Press.

184 On Andrea Baker’s Like Wind Loves A Window CRAIG MORGAN TEICHER has poems appearing The in Paris Review, Boston Review, Pleiades, and other publications. Other reviews appearHarvard in Review, Octopus, and elsewhere. He lives in New York, where he works as an Assistant Editor at Publishers Weekly. His blog is at slickerchumways.blogspot.com.

188 from Delay Rose LESLIE SCALAPINO is the author of thirty books of poetry, fiction, plays, and essays. Most recent poetry includes:It’s go in/quiet illumined grass/land (The Post- Apollo Press). Most recent fiction:Dahlia’s Iris (FC2). Forthcoming from Green Integer is a collection titled:Day Ocean State o f Stars’ Night.

191 [ J Dolls’ eyes Stainseii PHIL CORDELLI is one-half of The Pineswww.thepines.blogspot.com ( ), and much less of many other things, including Ugly Duckling Presse, Wave Hill, the Bruce Museum, and the Armageddon Brothers.

194 Book o f War SUSAN TICHY’S poems have been widely published in the US and Britain, and have been recognized by awards from the National Poetry Series and the National Endowment for the Arts. Her third book,Bone Pagoda, poems on Vietnam, is forthcoming from Ahsahta Press. She lives in Colorado and in Virginia, where she teaches at George Mason University. She also serves as Contributing Editor for the new journal,Practice: New Writing + Art.

197 from The Hands of Day PABLO NERUDA was born Neftali Eliecer Ricardo Reyes Basoalto in Parral, Chile, in 1904. He served as consul in Burma (now Myanmar) and held diplomatic posts in various East Asian and European countries. In 1945, a few years after he joined the Communist Party, Neruda was elected to the Chilean Senate. Yi/hen Chiles political climate took a sudden turn to the right, Neruda fled on horseback over the Andes and lived in exile for many years. He later established a permanent home at Isla Negra. In 1968 he composedThe Hands o f Day (Las manos del from dla), which the poems in this issue are taken. In 1970 he was appointed Chiles ambassador to France, and in 1971 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. He died in 1973. Over a fifteen year period, WILLIAM O ’DALY was the first to translate six of Pablo Neruda’s late and posthumous Stillworks: Another Day, The Separate Rose, Winter Garden, The Sea and the Bells, The Yellow andHeart, The Book o f Questions, all now available in second editions and published by Copper Canyon Press. He also has published a chapbook of his ownThe poems, Whale in the Web, with Copper Canyon, and recently completed a historical novel set inThis China, Earthly Life, co-authored with the esteemed Chinese writer Han-ping Chin. A recent recipient of a NEA Fellowship, O ’Daly resides with his wife and daughter in the foothills of the northern Sierra Nevada.

203 translations [1], [2], [3] KATE GREENSTREET S chapbook,Learning the Language, was published by Etherdome Press last fall,case sensitive, her first full-length book, is due from Ahsahta Press in September 2006. Adore information can be found at kategreenstreet.com. 207 I asked the m ind for a shape / and shape meant nothing BRITTAAMEEL

213 Fontaine de Vaucluse GRETA WROLSTAD, a gifted poet, painter, and photographer, passed away on Au­ gust 9, 2005 from injuries suffered in a car accident. A thinker, adventurer, traveler, and observer, she was moved by learning and new experiences. She was pursuing an MFA degree in Creative Writing at the University of Montana, where she also held a teaching assistantship. Greta had impeccable taste in writing, food, music, art, shoes, and geography. She served as poetry co-editorCutBank of Literary Magazine from 2004-2005. Greta attended the 2005 Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia on a scholarship awardedFence. by Several of her poems are forthcoming in The Canary. Her birthday is April 26th, 1981, and we celebrate her.